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Nature means Necessity.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven.
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Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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None but God can fill the perfect whole.
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